People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. U. S. SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION. In the senate on the Sth the following officers Were chosen, their terms of office to begin on the first day of the meeting of the Fifty-third congress: William S. Cox. of North Carolina, secretary; Richard J. Bright, of Indiana, sergeant-at-arms, and William H. Milburn, D. D. of Illinois, chaplain. The following nominations were received from the president; Hannis Taylor, of Alabama, to be minister to Spain: William Lochren, of Minnesota, to be commissioner of pensions. Senator Voorhees (Ind.) Introduced a res olution in the senate on the 7th directing the interstate .commerce committee to report what legislation is necessary to amend the interstate commerce act so as to protect the rights of organized labor. The nomination of Caleb W. West, of Kentucky, to be governor of Utah, ■was received from the president In the senate on the Bth the nomination of James B. Eustis, of Louisiana, to be ambassador and minister plenipotentiary to France was confirmed. No other business of importance was transacted. Recent decisions of Judges Taft and Kicks in Ohio and Speer in Georgia in relation to the rights and duties of railroad employes were discussed in the senate on the 10th. A resolution was adopted authorizing the interstate commerce committee to Inquire whether railway conditions require a repeal or modification of the anti-pooling section; and also whether any modifications should be made concerning the relations between common carriers and their employes.

DOMESTIC. The dedication of the great Mormon temple at Salt Lake City, which was commenced forty years ago and which has cost more than 86,000,000, was begun, and the ceremonies will extend over a period of fifteen days. The fishing schooner Genesta, of Gloucester, Mass., capsized in a squall 30 miles off Barnegat and six men named Hustings, Clark, Butler, McVenner and two brothers named Doane were drowned. The reports of United States Marshal Paul Frick show that his deputies, assisted by the United States troops, captured seventy-five of the Mexican bandits on the lower Rio Grande border during the last four months. Herbert J. Dowe, of Rochester, N. Y., died at a hospital as the result of swallowing while asleep a rubber dental plate to which a tooth was at tached. The Hekla, from Denmark, Norway and Sweden, with world’s fair exhibits and SOO passengers, was eight days overdue and auxiety was growing in New York.

Ar Cumming, Ga., three small children of J. Nance were burned to death while their parents were at a neighbor's visiting. The famous College Hill sanitarium, situated 3 miles north of the corporate limits of Cincinnati, was burned to the ground, the loss being 8150,000. Almost the entire business portion of Anson, Tex., was swept away by an incendiary fire. The national conference of state boards of health in session in New York discussed plans for securing a uniform system of interstate inspection to be adopted in case of an epidemic of cholera. The sentiment of the doctors in attendance is that cholera will surely visit the United States this summer. Mamie Hansen, a girl aged 11 years, who was run down by a Missouri Pacific railway train in the suburbs of Omaha and her leg cut off, has been awarded damages to the amount of SII,OOO. It has been discovered that Mr. and Mrs. Asa Barr, of Homestead, Pa., are brother and sister. They were separated twenty-five years ago and grew up strangers. A furious wind and hailstorm swept over the southern portion of Chicago, causing great damage. Trees were blown down, bill boards were leveled and hundreds of window lights shattered.

Business failures to the number of 223 occurred in the United States in the seven days ended on the 7th, against 194 the preceding week and 208 for the corresponding time last year. Two distinct shocks of earthquake frightened the residents of Lincolnton and Edgefield, in Georgia. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 7th aggregated 11,198,742,949, against $1,050,808,539 the previous week. The increase as compared with the corresponding week of 1892 was 3.7. Frederick Kalenberg, one of the leading men in the meerschaum pipe trade in New York, failed for $250,000. Within twenty-four hours three of the fragile hotel buildings adjacent to the world’s fair in Chicago collapsed under high winds. Jesus Ruen, a Spaniard who butchered his mistress, Francisca Flores, and an aged German named Goldkoffer, who tried to defend her, was lynched at San Bernardino, Cal. At Owensboro, Ky., fire destroyed the four large warehouses of the Glenmore Distilling company, containing 18,987 barrels of whisky. Loss, $350,000. Nine men were instantly killed and six others seriously injured on the line of the drainage canal at Romeo, 111., by the falling of a massive iron crane. Clifton, a village just below Pomeroy, 0., on the West Virginia side of the river, was almost completely wiped out by fire.. Ralph Chambers’ barn at Yorkville, Wis., was struck by lightning and nineteen cows and five horses were killed. The clothing of Mrs. Claus Frahm, an invalid at Hastings, Neb., caught fire, and she jtimped into a bath tub and turned on the water to quench the flames and was drowned. The Yellow Poplar Lumber company’s plant at Ironton, 0., and thirty dwellings were burned, the total loss being $470,000. Mrs. Brush, an invalid, perished in one of the burned houses. A prairie fire destroyed timber and buildings covering an* area 12 miles long and fully as wide near the Black Hills in South Dakbta.

The counties of Banner, Keith, Dawson and Blaine in Nebraska were completely devastated by prairie fires, many farmers losing their homes. Burglars stole $12,000 in cash from the county treasurer's office in Fort Madison, la., and made their escape. Judge Jackson, of the United States district court at Wheeling, W. Va., in a labor riot case said that mqn could refuse to work, but the law did not permit them to intimidate others from working in their places.Jesse Jackson’s large barn was burned at Dayton, 0., and with it six teen horses and 100 sheep perished. The. bodies of three persons, a man, woman and child, were found in the river near Williamson, W. Va. Their identity was unknown and foul play was suspected. In St. Louis a six-day go-as-you-please pedestrian contest ended as .‘follows: Moore, 525 miles; Cartwright, 520; Hughes, 513; Hegelman, 465; Glick, 454.

The usual proclamation prohibiting the taking of seals or other fur-bearing animals in Alaska or in Behring sea in the season of 1893 has been issued by the president. f The hailstorm which swept over the southern portion of Chicago did damage to the extent of SIOO,OOO. Mork than 200 mummies have arrived in Chicago for exhibition at the world’s fair. They were collected for the most part from the tombs of the Incas in Peru, and from the burying grounds of the prehistoric Chilians. Harry Haring fatally shot Annie Kurtz at Allen, Pa., because she refused to marry him and then shot himself. The steamer Hekla, after being twen-ty-four days at sea, was towed into port in New York by the steamer America and her 700 passengers were safely landed. The legislature of Nebraska adjourned sine die. Before adjournment resolutions of impeachment were adopted against ex-Attorney General Leese and ex-Auditor Benton. Lukens & Co., lumber dealers at Philadelphia, failed for $170,000. The total number of fourth-class postmasters appointed from March 4, 1893, to April 3, 1893, inclusive, is 878, of which 508 were to fill vacancies caused by resignations and deaths and 370 were removals. W. A. Gilbert, a young member of an aristocratic southern family, and highly educated, spent $140,000 in two years and paid the penalty of his folly by throwing himself into Lake Michigan at Chicago. Lee Newell and Leon Styles were burned to death in the calaboose at Stanberry, Mo. They fired the building in the hope of gaining their liberty. Statistics just issued of grain exports from New York for the year 1892 show that 73,306,828 bushels ■were shipped during the year. The wheat amounted to 48,057,323 bushels; corn, 13,719,119; oats. 3,391,475; rye, 3,063,719; peas. 823,678; flax seed, 855,913; barley, 674,811, and buckwheat, 634,468. Almost the entire western half of Nebraska has been swept by prairie fires, the area laid waste being 30 miles wide and 80 miles long. The counties of Grant, Perkins, Thomas, Keith, Brown. Rock, Deuel, Scotts’ Bluffs, Kimball, Banner and Cheyenne suffered immense loss.

The timber lands of the counties of Ross, Pike and Athens in Ohio were laid waste by fire, the total loss being over $300,000. George Snow and Arthur Gainer were shot and killed by Arthur Fields as they were going to church at Livingstone, Tex. Jealousy over a young lady was the cause. The New York Historical society celebrated the 200th anniversary of the introduction of the printing press into the colony of New York by William Bradford, who began his services as public printer in 1693. Towns along the Rio Grande in New Mexico felt four severe shocks of earthquake. Miss Edith Day returned to Portland, Ore., having completed her 10,000-mile railroad journey through the United States and Mexico in seventeen days and fourteen and one-half hours. Miss Bessie Mitchell, who left Chicago for a trip around the country in three weeks, on a wager that she could go 10,000 miles without leaving the railroad car, succeeded in accomplishing the feat. The scheme of /New York capitalists to secure all the rolling mills and furnaces in the Mahoning (O.) valley for $7,000,000 has been successful. The famous trotting stallion JLebasco died at Beatrice, Neb., of laryngitis. His owner? J. G. Ladd, had refused an offer of SIOO,OOO for him. The April report of the statistician of the department of agriculture at Washington makes the average condition of winter wheat 77.4, against 81.2 last year. Twelve hours saw the beginning and the peaceful ending of a strike at the world's fair grounds that involved all union workmen within the gates, to the number of 5,000 or more, and imperiled the successful opening of the exposition.

The train containing the southern California world’s fair fruit exhibit was wrecked near Albuquerque and most of the fruit was ruined. William Williams, a Chicago painter, murdered his wife by cutting her throat because she refused to live with him and then committed suicide in the same manner. A cyclone passed over the southern part of Scranton, Pa., and damaged property to the extent of thousands of dollars. Many persons were injured, but no one was killed. Charles N. Hunt, an influential lawyer at Minneapolis, has determined to forsake a prosperous business and become an evangelist. Enoch Davis, who murdered his wife at Ashley, Utah, in July, 1892, will be shot by order of Judge Blackburn in the courthouse yard at Provo on the 9th day of June next. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Joseph H. Miller, the oldest active newspaper man in New Jersey, died in Newark of pneumonia.

J. H. Prince, for fifty years a locomotive engineer on the Boston <fc Providence railroad, died at Dedham. Mass. George I. Seney, the millionaire banker, philanthropist and art lover, died in New York. Lucien Scott, banker, capitalist and cattle raiser at Leavenworth, Kan., died in New York city of hemorrhage of the stomach. He was worth $2,500,000. A. G. Magrath, who was governor of South Carolina in 1864, died at Charleston, aged 80 years. No-Water, the famous Sioux chief who was the center of the ghost dancing of two years ago which preceded the Pine Ridge war, died of pneumonia at Sioux Falls, S. D. T. H. Carter, chairman of the republican national committee, has issued a call for a meeting of that body to be held at the Louisville hotel, Louisville, on May 10 next. Joseph Turner, who erected the finest opera house in Dayton, 0., and was once very wealthy, died a pauper at the acene of his former splendor.

FOREIGN. With the setting in of slightly warmer weather the official reports show the recurrence of cholera in nearly all the places in Russia in which it wrought havoc last summer and autumn. Ex-Congressman Blount, sent by the president to ascertain the feeling in Hawaii concerning annexation to the United States, has arrived in that country. He found a strong sentiment in favor of annexation, and also discovered that Uncle Sam must eithei accept the islands or at once refuse the offering. The United States consulate at one of the Peruvian ports was sacked by a mob, with apparent police sanction, and the officer acting as consular agent for the United States was fired upon and wounded in the foot Ben Johnson was killed and four other laborers fatally injured by the caving in of a sewer at Winnepeg, Manitoba. Mir Khudad Khan, the ruler of Khelat, India, suspecting five of his numerous wives to be guilty of infidelity caused thorn to be cruelly put to death.

Sixty' houses were burned in Vaskut, Hungary, and three persons died in the flames. Wimpfheimer & Co., cotton brokers at Liverpool, failed for $350,000. The Newfoundland seal fishery is admitted to be a total failure for this season. A severe earthquake shock was felt in many parts of Servia. The village of Vetiki Popovitch was tumbled into ruins and several persons were killed. The Peruvian government has taken the initiatory steps towards complying with the demands of the United States that reparation be made for the outrage committed on its consular agency at Mollendo. An earthquake shock in Servia tore great fissures in the earth and thousands of houses and many churches were wrecked. The famine in the government of Perm, Russia, was said to be worse than ever before. The poor were dying by hundreds, and in the smaller villages the people had ceased trying to bury the bodies. It was estimated that 525,000,000 pounds of grain were required to alleviate the distress arid keep the poor in food until the next harvest. Manuel Gonzalez, ex-president of Mexico, died in the City of Mexico at the age of 73 years. While King Carlos was driving through the park at Lisbon a man fired a shot at his majesty, but without effect.

LATER. In the United States senate on the 11th the resolution for the admission of the three senators appointed by the governors of Montana, Washington and Wyoming was discussed, but no action was taken. The nomination of Daniel N. Morgan, of Connecticut, to be treasurer of the United States, and that of Daniel M. Browning, of Illinois, to be commissioner of Indian affairs, were received from the president. Director General Davis has extended the time for receiving exhibits at the world’s fair to April 30. By the explosion of gas in a coal pit near Pontypridd, in Wales, 300 miners were entombed and property to the value of thousands of pounds was destroyed. Seventy of the imprisoned men made their escape and the rest probably perished. The town of St. Mary's, 0.. was nearly wiped out by fire. Loss, $300,000. The business and one-half the residence portion of Parker, Mo., was destroyed by a cyclone and several persons were killed and a large number were injured. James Jefcote was lynched by a mob near Pickens, Miss., for murdering his wife.

The will of Col. Elliott F. Shepard, late proprietor of the Mail and Express in New York, leaves an estate valued at $1,350,000. A cyclone passed over the southern portion of Kansas and three towns, Willis, Everest and Powhattan, were laid in ruins. Ed Pardridge, the famous Chicago board of trade plunger, lost $750,000 by a rise in wheat. J. W. Flood, for twenty-seven years cashier of the Donohoe-Kelly Banking company at San Francisco, was arrested on a charge of embezzling $164,000. Fire gutted the new Y. M. C. A. building at Newcastle, Pa,, which was given to the city by Evangelist Sankey. George Bradley, a negro at Bowling Green, Ky., killed his boy while in a rage and then, horrified at the deed, he and his wife took poison. The town of Malattia, in Asia Minor, with 3,000 houses was destroyed by an earthquake and 130 persons perished. The city of Akron, la., was almost entirely wrecked by a cyclone and many persons were injured, some fatally. The storm followed the Sioux valley south to Westfield and its path was marked by demolished houses and barns. A man and his wife were killed at one farm house. Several others were badly injured and many horses and cattle were killed.